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Education and Adult Cognition in a Low-income Setting : Differences among Adult Siblings
Zhang, Yuan S.; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The relationship between completed education and adult cognition is investigated using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey. We compare adult siblings to account for shared, difficult-to-measure characteristics that likely affect this relationship, including genetics and parental...
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Improving adult literacy without improving the literacy of adults? : a cross-national cohort analysis
Barakat, Bilal - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 242-257
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The Science of Adult Literacy
Thomas, Michael S.C. - 2020
This report considers the science of adult literacy acquisition, with the goal of identifying principles that may improve the effectiveness of adult literacy programs. We define literacy as a continuum, from emerging literacy, through improving literacy, to fluent literacy and we outline the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646865
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Adults with Low Proficiency in Literacy or Numeracy
Grotlüschen, Anke - 2016
This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of the information from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) regarding adults … as lower levels of educational attainment, lower rates of unemployment or more disadvantaged backgrounds, adults with low … which adults with low proficiency engage in the reading, writing and numeracy practices and the relationship between these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454378
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Literacy, Numeracy and Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments : Framework for the OECD Survey of Adult Skills
2012
regarding the skills that adults use in their work, home and communities, and related information, including family background …, education, employment, income, civic participation and health. Results from the data, which are being collected from August 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443271
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Learning a Living : First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
2005
Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss. The book opens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443668
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Literacy in the Information Age : Final Report of the International Adult Literacy Survey
2000
attainment is complex. Many adults have managed to attain high levels of literacy proficiency despite a low level of education … socially: literacy affects, inter alia, labour quality and flexibility, employment, training opportunities, income from work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012441307
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Literacy for Life : Further Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
2011
Literacy for Life is the second report from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey. It presents additional results on the nature and magnitude of the literacy gaps faced by OECD countries and how these gaps have evolved over the medium term. It offers new insights into the factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012441849
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Individual behaviour as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 588, pp. 372-393
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